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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Joisel Dwarf

5-15-2013 My first Joisel dwarf

This has been on my "to fold" list for some time; well, I finally quit procrastinating and tackled it. 12" x 12" square of wyndstone paper. Not a bad turn out for my first attempt. At least I'm okay with it.

I look forward to playing around with different faces and hats (yes, I plan on folding and practicing some more on this model). Hmmm....he looks a bit lonely without any musical instrument...

A couple of comments at the Origami Forum by Adam and Ysou offers a translation of the French text (Also appears and translated into English in Tanteidan Convention book 13):

1) In Box pleating, people often try to use grids that can be divided by
8, because it’s easy to create them. The grid I used before was 24x24 (
first: 3, then:8 ). However, the arms were a bit short and the corners
that created the facial details ( A-B-C-D ) – only three of them – were
not sufficient. In order to solve these problems, this model uses a
28x28 grid. It is easier to create this grid by measuring than by
folding…

2) After having folded EVERY crease as indicated in step
1, the collapsing process begins: Fold along the creases in the
gray-shaded part.

3) The collapsing process continues: Collapse
along the rest of the creases in order to get to the shape as shown in
step 4. Using clamps might make things easier…

4) When you are
this far, partially unfold the model in order to free the small rhombus (
**diamond shaped part ** ) as shown in step 5.

5) Once these
diamond shaped parts have been freed, one can fully flatten the model,
in order to get the result as shown in step 6.

6) Fold the arms
and the facial details as far away as possible. Crimp ( or inside
reverse fold ) to fold the feet ( as shown on the right leg ), after
having folded the white triangle inside ( as indicated on the left leg
).